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Posted: 4/29/2013 3:16:45 PM EST
An Israel Air Force C-130 Hercules plane flies near paratroopers after dropping them off during a military exercise at the Palmachim air force base near Tel Aviv April 29, 2013. REUTERS/Amir Cohen
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Posted: 4/29/2013 2:33:19 PM EST
FILE - In this Sunday, May 27, 2012, file photo, former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, right, smiles, as he sits next to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in an inauguration ceremony of the parliament in Tehran, Iran. Hashemi Rafsanjani, Iran's influential former president, says his country is not at war with archenemy Israel, the media reported Monday, in the latest departure by a high-profile politician from the strident anti-Israel line traditionally taken by many senior Iranian leaders. The remarks by Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani follows calls from figures across the political spectrum to repair the damage to Iran's international reputation they said had been caused by outgoing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who called Israel a doomed state and questioned the extent of the Holocaust. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)
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Posted: 4/29/2013 11:18:19 AM EST
This undated photo provided by Sotheby’s in New York shows a page from the Mishneh Torah, which has been jointly purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and The Israel Museum in Jerusalem. The 15th century Torah from the Michael and Judy Steinhardt Judaica Collection is the second of a two-volume illuminated manuscript with text by the Middle Age Jewish philosopher Moses Maimonides. The first volume is housed in the Vatican Library. (AP Photo/Sotheby's, Ardon Bar-Hama)
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Posted: 4/26/2013 3:18:50 PM EST
In this photo taken Wednesday, April 24, 2013, an Israeli soldier looks through binoculars at a Syrian village from an army post on the border between Israel and Syrian on the Golan Heights. Against a breathtaking vista of green fields and a snowcapped mountain range, all is silent but for a strong gust of wind whipping across the landscape. The tranquility is suddenly interrupted by a burst of gunfire from beyond a newly built fortified fence: Jihadi rebels are battling with Bashar Assad's battered troops in a nearby Syrian village. Watching it all unfold are Israeli soldiers atop tanks - a sight unseen here in a generation - and the sounds of explosions from a large-scale Israeli drill are distinctly heard in the background. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
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Posted: 4/26/2013 3:18:50 PM EST
In this photo taken Wednesday, April 24, 2013, a worker builds a security fence along the border between Israel and Syrian on the Golan Heights. Against a breathtaking vista of green fields and a snowcapped mountain range, all is silent but for a strong gust of wind whipping across the landscape. The tranquility is suddenly interrupted by a burst of gunfire from beyond a newly built fortified fence: Jihadi rebels are battling with Bashar Assad's battered troops in a nearby Syrian village. Watching it all unfold are Israeli soldiers atop tanks - a sight unseen here in a generation - and the sounds of explosions from a large-scale Israeli drill are distinctly heard in the background. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
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Posted: 4/26/2013 4:54:07 AM EST
White phosphorus bombs explode over Gaza city during Israel's three week offensive, in this January 8, 2009 file photo. Israel is phasing out white phosphorus munitions whose use to create smokescreens during its 2008-2009 offensive in the Gaza Strip drew international criticism, the military said on April 26, 2013. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem/Files
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Posted: 4/25/2013 11:38:31 AM EST
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, is welcomed by Druse leaders for the holiday of Nabi Shoaib, the Prophet Jethro, during a cultural event with members of the country's Druse minority in the Druse village of Julis, northern Israel, Thursday, April 25, 2013. Israel shot down a drone Thursday as it approached the country's northern coast, the military said. Suspicion immediately fell on the Hezbollah militant group in Lebanon. The incident was likely to raise already heightened tensions between Israel and Hezbollah, a bitter enemy that battled Israel to a stalemate during a monthlong war in 2006. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was in northern Israel at the time of the incident, said he viewed the infiltration attempt with "utmost gravity." (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
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Posted: 4/25/2013 11:38:31 AM EST
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, attends the holiday of Nabi Shoaib, the Prophet Jethro, during a cultural event with members of the country's Druse minority in the Druse village of Julis, northern Israel, Thursday, April 25, 2013. Israel shot down a drone Thursday as it approached the country's northern coast, the military said. Suspicion immediately fell on the Hezbollah militant group in Lebanon. The incident was likely to raise already heightened tensions between Israel and Hezbollah, a bitter enemy that battled Israel to a stalemate during a monthlong war in 2006. Netanyahu, who was in northern Israel at the time of the incident, said he viewed the infiltration attempt with "utmost gravity." (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
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Posted: 4/25/2013 11:38:31 AM EST
An Israeli military naval ship and an Israeli air force helicopter operate off the coast of Haifa, northern Israel, Thursday, April 25, 2013. Israel shot down a drone Thursday as it approached the country's northern coast, the military said. Suspicion immediately fell on the Hezbollah militant group in Lebanon. The incident was likely to raise already heightened tensions between Israel and Hezbollah, a bitter enemy that battled Israel to a stalemate during a monthlong war in 2006. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
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Posted: 4/25/2013 11:38:31 AM EST
An Israeli military naval ship and an Israeli air force helicopter operate next to a cruise ship off the coast of Haifa, northern Israel, Thursday, April 25, 2013. Israel shot down a drone Thursday as it approached the country's northern coast, the military said. Suspicion immediately fell on the Hezbollah militant group in Lebanon. The incident was likely to raise already heightened tensions between Israel and Hezbollah, a bitter enemy that battled Israel to a stalemate during a monthlong war in 2006. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
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Posted: 4/25/2013 11:38:31 AM EST
An Israeli military naval ship and an Israeli air force helicopter operate off the coast of Haifa , northern Israel, Thursday, April 25, 2013. Israel shot down a drone Thursday as it approached the country's northern coast, the military said. Suspicion immediately fell on the Hezbollah militant group in Lebanon. The incident was likely to raise already heightened tensions between Israel and Hezbollah, a bitter enemy that battled Israel to a stalemate during a monthlong war in 2006. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
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Posted: 4/23/2013 3:03:27 PM EST
U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, center, is welcomed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, at his office in Jerusalem, on Tuesday, April 23, 2013. Hagel said the U.S. and Israel need to ensure that their alliance is "closer than ever," as Mideast security challenges grow more complicated.(AP Photo/Jim Watson, Pool)
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Posted: 4/23/2013 1:58:33 PM EST
FILE - In this Dec. 8, 2011 file photo, a wooden bridge, at right, leading to the Al Aqsa Mosque's Mughrabi Gate is seen in Jerusalem's Old City. Israel has agreed to allow a mission from UNESCO - U.N.'s cultural arm, to visit the Old City of Jerusalem next month, a small victory for those hoping to end the deadlock between Israelis and Palestinians. Israel announced Tuesday, April 23, 2013, that it also has agreed to take part in a Paris meeting of experts next month on the Mughrabi Ascent that leads to a disputed holy site in Jerusalem's Old City revered by Jews and Muslims. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, File)
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Posted: 4/23/2013 4:18:27 AM EST
U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, left, listens at a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the latter's office in Jerusalem, on Tuesday, April 23, 2013. Hagel said the U.S. and Israel need to ensure that their alliance is "closer than ever," as Mideast security challenges grow more complicated. (AP Photo/Jim Watson, Pool)
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Posted: 4/23/2013 4:18:27 AM EST
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, welcomes U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel at his office in Jerusalem, on Tuesday, April 23, 2013. Hagel said the U.S. and Israel need to ensure that their alliance is "closer than ever," as Mideast security challenges grow more complicated. (AP Photo/Jim Watson, Pool)
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Posted: 4/22/2013 6:03:26 AM EST
U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel looks at pictures of Jews killed in the Holocaust during a visit to the Hall of Names at Yad Vashem's Holocaust History Museum in Jerusalem, Israel, April 21, 2013. U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel held out hope Sunday for a nonmilitary way to ending the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran, but he also emphasized Washington's willingness to let Israel decide whether and when it might strike Tehran in self-defense. (AP Photo//Baz Ratner, Pool)
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Posted: 4/22/2013 5:36:01 AM EST
The Turkish-owned cruise liner Mavi Marmara is seen under maintenance at a shipyard in Istanbul April 21, 2013. Israel apologised to Turkey over the killing of nine Turks in a 2010 naval raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla, which included the Mavi Marmara, and the two agreed to normalise relations in phone calls arranged by U.S. President Barack Obama on his recent trip to Israel. REUTERS/Murad Sezer
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Posted: 4/22/2013 5:36:01 AM EST
The Turkish-owned cruise liner Mavi Marmara is seen under maintenance at a shipyard in Istanbul April 21, 2013. Israel apologised to Turkey over the killing of nine Turks in a 2010 naval raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla, which included the Mavi Marmara, and the two agreed to normalise relations in phone calls arranged by U.S. President Barack Obama on his recent trip to Israel. REUTERS/Murad Sezer
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Posted: 4/21/2013 12:58:28 PM EST
US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, center, stands with Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon, left, and Robert Rozett, director of Yad Vashem Libraries. right, as he tours Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, Israel on April 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Jim Watson, pool)
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Posted: 4/21/2013 12:18:31 PM EST
US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, right, right, shakes hands with Director General of the Israeli Ministry of Defense Udi Shani as Israel Ambassador to the US Michael Oren looks on, as he arrives in Tel Aviv, Israel on April 21, 2013. (AP Photos/Jim Watson, pool)
